On Sunday: Web Coverage of Russia’s Presidential Election

Russians vote Sunday in a presidential election that many expect will bring Vladimir Putin back into office. Protesters, angry at the way they say parliamentary elections in December squeezed out opposition candidates, have vowed to continue demanding reforms and a new vote.

In the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Putin’s United Russia party lost the two-thirds majority it had going into the election, but maintained an absolute majority — winning slightly more than half the seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the legislature.

Russian dissident blogger Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday’s NewsHour that the protests will continue after the election. “I do not know what the scale of the protest will be, but the fact that it will continue is quite obvious. It doesn’t matter how they count the votes, because all candidates should have been able to participate in the elections.”